Anonymus 23 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E IX |
| Dates | 812 (taq) / 812 (tpq) |
| Religion | Christian |
| Locations | Nikaia (officeplace); Nikaia |
| Occupation | Bishop |
| Titles | Bishop, Nikaia (Bithynia) (office) |
| Textual Sources | Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle) |
Anonymus 23 was metropolitan bishop of Nikaia; he was one of the advisers consulted by the emperor Michael I (Michael 7) on 1 November 812 on the subject of making peace with the Bulgars; he, together with the patriarch of Constantinople (Nikephoros 2) and the unnamed bishop of Kyzikos (Anonymus 24) favoured making peace on the terms proposed, but the opposite view, supported by Theodore the Stoudite (Theodoros 15) prevailed (παρῆσαν δὲ καὶ μητροπολῖται, ὅ τε Νικαίας καὶ ὁ Κυζίκου): Theoph. AM 6305. Possibly to be identified with Petros 49.
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